Baltimore Personal Trainers

Baltimore personal trainers often work closely with doctors to help clients to achieve good health. While some clients may just want to get back into shape or lose weight, others use the services of a personal trainer to combat serious health conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure. Studies show that a healthy diet and regular exercise can help improve many different conditions and sometimes even eliminate the need for medications. Doctors often prescribe a healthy diet and exercise and trainers help fill in the gap making it easier for patients to comply.

Obesity is the leading cause of preventable illness and death.

Obesity is now a nationwide epidemic and it’s easy to understand why. We no longer grow our own food, eating fresh vegetables from the garden, unpasteurized milk from our cows and fresh eggs from chickens that eat food nature intended. Fast food and processed food is now the primary diet of most Americans. Even when vegetables are part of the meal, they’re often battered and fried. Personal trainers can show you how to make wiser food selections that provide more nutrition, taste better, but contain fewer calories.

A sedentary lifestyle also puts on weight.

Exercise helps burn calories, but it also builds muscle tissue too. Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue does, so fit people have an easier time of keeping weight off that those with no muscle tone do. Exercise also does more than just help you lose weight, it also helps prevent serious conditions, such as osteoporosis. You also create endorphins when you exercise, which lift your spirits. In fact, some psychologists and psychiatrists recommend exercise for depressed patients.

Exercise protects your chromosomes.

Studies show that people who exercise regularly have longer telomeres than those who don’t. Telomeres are like the plastic tips on shoelaces, but for chromosomes. They prevent the chromosomes from unraveling and fusing with each other, which can cause abnormalities, cell damage and death. Cell death is the cause of aging, disease and eventually death.

Exercise increases the blood flow to all parts of the body, including the brain. Some studies show it may be helpful in combating Alzheimer’s disease.

Exercise burns off the negative hormones created by stress, such as cortisol. These hormones, if allowed to remain, have damaging effects on the body.

A healthy diet and exercise can improve heart conditions, lung problems, relieve pain from arthritis and even help back problems clear. People often compared it to taking a pill that makes your whole body better.

You’ll have more energy and be more active when you exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet. That not only adds years to your life but also life to those years.